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We deal with a multi-parameter identification problem arising in oil industry. In the general case, we give a local solvability condition to guarantee the well-posedness of the problem. We discuss in detail the identification of two parameters for which some numerical results are given.
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Peng, YJ., Tan, Y. Multi-Parameter Identification and Applications in Well-Logging. Computational Geosciences 5, 331–343 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014594922928
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